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Since it’s reasonable to assume that users protect their devices and close or transfer their accounts when devices are lost or stolen

BS. It's not reasonable to assume that.

But they got one thing right about "push authentication." It just pushes the problem around. So if I lose my device, or it gets stolen, or I just simply think I misplaced it, I need to change all my accounts? Riight. Y'all know how hard that is, trying to get a live person at various institutions.

Mandatory xkcd[^]
(I know it is not exactly the same but... you get the point, don't you?)

M.D.V.

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If it were before in the day I would drink another coffee... now I think I will just grab a

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Security awareness training specialist KnowBe4 has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords and determine how the proposed passphrase concept stacks up against methods currently in use.

has carried out a survey of 2,600 IT professionals to look at how organizations are managing passwords

For that no survey was needed... the answer is "bad"

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HyperCard brought into one sharp package the ability for a Macintosh to do interactive documents with calculation, sound, music and graphics. It was a popular package, and thousands of HyperCard “stacks” were created using the software.

I have The Complete Hypercard Handbook. I think that was one of the coolest pieces of software ever written. I had hoped to recreate it at one point with Intertexi, but never got far with it. Wish there were people willing to donate their scarce free time for no compensation to work on a product that may never find a market in a language (C#) that many open source programmers, especially those youngins, disdain.

Imagine a web-based version of Hypercard where you could share cards, decks, etc. If something like that exists, I don't know about it.

Supercapacitors promise recharging of phones and other devices in seconds and minutes as opposed to hours for batteries. But current technologies are not usually flexible, have insufficient capacities, and for many their performance quickly degrades with charging cycles. Researchers have found a way to improve all three problems in one stroke.